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Updates on Spay/Neuter Recommendations

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n this session: The World Small Animal Veterinary Association published Reproduction Control Guidelines in 2024. These guidelines included decision-making recommendations for reproduction control in dogs and cats that differ from the traditional recommendation to prepubertally spay/neuter. Michelle Anne Kutzler, BVS, DVM, PhD, MBA, focuses on the decision-making recommendations in light of the most current research related to some of the long-term adverse health effects of gonad removal.

Small Animal

The One Health perils of New World screwworms

Transboundary diseases are those that are not endemic in a region, but have significant risks if they were to enter, for example, the United States. Risks include economic and threats to human, animal, and environmental health.

Practice Management

Surviving comorbid conversations

In his latest column, Dr. Greg Bishop shares his firsthand experience on how a collaborative mentality with pet owners can help improve not only the client experience, but also the delivery of the best possible care for patients.

Why your identity as a veterinarian should not define you

"Here’s when we have to learn—the hard way—that who we are and what we do are not synonymous ... It made our mistakes more intensely personal, our feelings of failure more acute, and our successes less believable, less satisfying.""